We are excited and honored to be welcoming all of your students to the
Hilltop, and for sharing them with us for the next several years. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Resource Center (LGBTQ) is unique among Jesuit schools, as we are the first fully funded, stand alone Center in the country.
A long process of discernment, dialogue, and reflection from students, faculty, staff, and Ministry went into creating and establishing this Center, and we look forward to creating spaces for conversations around the intersections of LGBTQ and faith. We are very honored and very mindful of the responsibility and privilege that comes in its wake. We started in August 2008, and we have sought to build on the rich interfaith and intellectual engagements of
Guided by the Jesuit values of cura personalis (care of the person), Academic Excellence, Educating the Whole Person, Faith & Justice, Women and Men for Others, Interreligious Understanding, and Community in Diversity we work towards creating a space and community where all are welcome, celebrated, and given opportunities for full actualization of their potential.
Our mission is dual: to provide thoughtful education for all members of the campus community on LGBTQ issues as part of the larger diversity of our world; and to provide a safe environment in which our LGBTQ students can be fully participatory citizens of the campus community.
We work with all of our campus partners—both within Student Affairs, and with academic units to provide a broad range of trainings, workshops, programs, and events throughout the year. We also provide students with leadership development by having them participate in national conferences, and providing specific opportunities for work with all of our campus partners. We offer peer facilitated discussion groups for both LGBTQ and Ally students; there are LGBTQ Catholic and Protestant prayer groups that meet weekly; and we offer a range of educational, social, and service oriented programming.
We invite all parents to come visit us at the Center, and to learn more about our work. Please visit our website for more information on all the work we do: http://lgbtq.georgetown.edu. We hope you can drop by when you are here. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to get in touch with Shiva Subbaraman, who serves as the Director of the Center, as well as Matt LeBlanc, Program Coordinator. We also have several work study students, and we work extensively with graduate students, faculty, and staff.
Please email us lgbtq@georgetown.edu if you have questions or concerns you would like addressed; and you can also reach us at: 202.687.3546.